mooreslaw.frink

/* Calculate Moore's law and the benefit of waiting to start a long-running
calculation because you assume computers are going to get faster.

If you have a "doubling time" d (the value that has been found empirically
is that the speed of computing devices has roughly doubled every 18
months), you can put off starting the problem until the projected time to
solve it is less than:

d/ln[2]

For a doubling time d of 18 months, this works out to about 26 months. If
a problem's going to take longer to solve than that, and you've got your
algorithm optimized, you might as well just sit back and have a beer.
*/